For malnourished patients, their length of stay in hospital is increased by three days.

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The government has introduced some measures to deter them, should they succeed in landing, such as restrictions on the length of their stay and their access to welfare.

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Also, varying allotted length of stay is more efficient because workers would be able to purchase visas based on their prospective length of work opportunities, and the system would not benefit one job over an alternative with a different time frame.

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He said three-quarters of eye clinic patients now rated their experience 'very good' or 'excellent', and Surgicentre had one of the best length of stay records for knee and hip replacements in the east of England.

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